Introduction to Information Retrieval, Manning et al, 2009
Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines, 2nd Edition, Croft et al, 2024
Click Models for Web Search, Chuklin et al, 2015
Lecture Notes on Neural Information Retrieval, Tonellotto, arxiv, 2022
An Introduction to Neural Information Retrieval, Mitra et al, Microsoft, 2018
AI-Powered Search, Grainger et al, 2025
Relevant Search, Turnbull, 2016
Doug Turnbull’s Blog - https://softwaredoug.com/
Airbnb engineering and data science - https://airbnb.tech/
Zillow AI and ML - https://www.zillow.com/tech/ai-ml/
Linkedin NLP posts - https://www.linkedin.com/blog/engineering/natural-language-processing
Monigatti: 37 Things I Learned About IR, 2025
Doug Turnbull: What AI Engineers Should Know about Search, 2024
Doug Turnbull: What Is a Judgment List?, 2021
Airbnb: How Machine Learning Transforms Voice Support Experience
Airbnb: Embedding-Based Retrieval
Zillow: Designing AI-Driven User Memory for Personalization
Zillow: Guided Search — Personalized Search Refinements
Stanford Natural Language Understanding Series - XCS224U, 2023 notes
An Introduction to Neural Models in Information Retrieval, IIIA Hub, 2022
Information Retrieval from the Ground Up - Philipp Krenn, Elastic, 2025
https://github.com/RUC-NLPIR/LLM4IR-Survey (via LLMs for Information Retrieval: A Survey)
http://github.com/quqxui/Awesome-LLM4IE-Papers (via LLMs for Generative Information Extraction: A Survey)
https://github.com/tsinghua-fib-lab/LLM-Agent-for-Recommendation-and-Search (via A Survey of Large Language Model Empowered Agents for Recommendation and Search)
https://github.com/fengranMark/ConvSearch-Survey (via A Survey of Conversational Search)
https://github.com/frutik/awesome-search
https://github.com/softwaredoug/local-llm-judge
https://github.com/softwaredoug/searcharray
https://github.com/xhluca/bm25s
https://www.pinecone.io/learn/series/nlp/
https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/elasticsearch/index-settings/similarity
https://www.pinecone.io/learn/series/image-search/
https://queryunderstanding.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relevance_feedback
Learning To Rank Diversely At Airbnb, Haldar et al, 2022 - https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07774 (blog post)
Learning to Rank for Maps at Airbnb, Haldar et al, 2024 - https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00091 (blog post)
Beyond Pairwise Learning-To-Rank At Airbnb, Haldar et al, 2025 - https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09795
Transforming Location Retrieval at Airbnb: A Journey from Heuristics to Reinforcement Learning, Haldar et al, 2024 - https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13399
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/improving-search-ranking-for-maps-13b03f2c2cca
https://dtunkelang.medium.com/how-to-be-a-search-consultant-678a44e0cc24